A photograph of a plat map showing the location of one of four Appomattox Indian Towns. On this site will be a farm called "Ettrick Banks" later Virginia State University. This was the site of one of the Indian Towns attacked by Nat Bacon in 1666.

Date of Construction for Holsey Hall Is Not Known, But For Many Years It Was Listed As The Oldest Buildings On Campus. Holsey Hall Is Named In Honor Of Bishop Lucius H. Holsey. It Was Used As An Elementary School, A Dormitory For Both Men And...

Built for the owner of the Fleet Farm in 1834. The building became known as the Griffin House, after John Griffin bought the tract in 1879. It was purchased for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882. It was converted into the main...

Built for the owner of the Fleet Farm in 1834. The building became known as the Griffin House, after John Griffin bought the tract in 1879. It was purchased for Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1882. It was converted into the main...

Printed Document Describing the Meeting of the Presbytery of New Castle on October 5, 1853, When the Decision Was Made to Found The Ashmun Institute. Verso Contains Unsigned Handwritten Note, Dated 12-17-1853, Attributed to Sarah Emlen Cresson...

Handwritten in a (Larger Format) Ledger Book. Some Blank Pages. Some Bleedthrough Obscures Text in Spots. Name Changes From Ashmun Institute to Lincoln University on April 4, 1866. Title Changes From "Summary of Operations" to "[Minutes of] the...

An Expanded Version of an Address Delivered at the Dedication of Ashmun Institute's First Building in 1856, First Published in 1857 in the Presbyterian Magazine and Republished in 1859 in "Home, the School, and the Church". This Printing Was Done...

William Mahone was a railroad engineer, a Confederate General, and a hero in the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864. After the Civil War he was one of the people who helped establish the Readjuster Party. The Party's support of the public...

This is a view of Fleets Hill in 1883, as seen from Petersburg across the Appomattox River. This picture shows some of the many mills operating from water power along the Appomattox in Ettrick and Petersburg from the mid-1840s through the 1890s.